Tie device



L J. ENGLERT.

,TIE DEVICE..l APPLICATXON FILED JULY 10,1918.

Patented Feb. 1,1921.

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11N lnnn JOSEPH J. ENGLERT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TIE DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 1, 1921.

Application led July 10, 1918. Serial No. 244,297.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH J. ENGLERT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Iniproveinents in Tie Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices employed for securing the contents of pasteboard, wooden and other boxes or containers against pilfering, and its object is to provide a very simple, cheap and easlly applied device of this kind.

l/Vith the object stated in view, the 1nvention consists in a novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed, and in order that the saine may be better understood, reference 1s had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification.

In the drawing,

Figure l is an elevation of one of the tie devices; y

Fig. 2 is a perspective View showing the position oi' the tie devices as applied to the container, and before being tightened up;

Fig. 3 is a plan view showing the method of tightening up the tie devices, and

Fig. l is a perspective view showing another application oi the invention.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 5 denotes a paste-board, wooden or othershipping container to which the invention is applied. In order to protect the contents of the container against pilfering, there is provided a tie device in the form of two endless loops 6 of wire or other cheap Inaterial having sufficient fiexibility to stand twisting. The ends of the wire are joined by twisting the saine together as shown at 7;

. or they may be fastened together in any other suitable manner immaterial to the present invention. These wire loops will .be made in various sizes to fit around containers oi' dil'l'erent sizes, and for greater convenience in applying the saine they will also be shaped to conform to the shape of thel containers. The drawing shows a rectan gular container, and hence the loop is given a corresponding shape. It will be noted that three sides of the loop lit the s1des of the container snugly, and the. fourth side container, the portion 8 forms a slack in the loop. Ordinarily, two tie wires are eniployed, they being placed around the container at right angles to each other, with the slack portions 8 intersecting as shown in Fig. 2. A twisting tool is now applied at the intersection of the parts 8 andthe two wires lengths are twisted together as shown at 9 in Fig. 8 to take up the slack, which leaves the two loops drawn tightly around the container. Any suitable tool can be used for making the twist 9. After being tightened up as described, the loops cannot be slipped off the container, nor can they be removed without breaking the saine, so that the contents of the container are now safe from being pilered.

The tie device can be made, properly shaped and diniensioned, by automatic niachinery, and it can therefore be cheaply produced. A shaped tiedevice is also easier to apply than one which must first be bent into shape to lit the container, and which cannot, without considerable diticulty, be drawn tight around the container. The present device, as hereinbei'ore described is produced in proper shape to tightly fit the containers except for the portions S which are twisted together to take up the slack after the two loops are in place on the container'.

Fig. It shows a tie device consisting of three loops, two of which extend around the container crosswise as shown at 10, and the third one lengthwise as shown at 11.

I claim:

tie device comprising a pair of separate iiexible n'ieinl'iers, each of which is preshaped to produce a portion tightly itting the part to which the device is to be applied and another portion which is bowed outwardly i'roni said part, said bowed portions intersecting, and being twisted together at their intersection to tightly fit the parts from which they previously bowed outwardly.

In .testimony whereof I aix m si ature.

JOSEPH J- E GL RT. 

